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CIA sources blab – again

Now just when will those who are supposedly ‘concerned’ about our national security (the Plamegate pushers) call for an investigation into this?

Dec. 5, 2005 — Two CIA secret prisons were operating in Eastern Europe until last month when they were shut down following Human Rights Watch reports of their existence in Poland and Romania.

Current and former CIA officers speaking to ABC News on the condition of confidentiality say the United States scrambled to get all the suspects off European soil before Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice arrived there today. The officers say 11 top al Qaeda suspects have now been moved to a new CIA facility in the North African desert.

CIA officials asked ABC News not to name the specific countries where the prisons were located, citing security concerns.

The CIA declines to comment, but current and former intelligence officials tell ABC News that 11 top al Qaeda figures were all held at one point on a former Soviet air base in one Eastern European country. Several of them were later moved to a second Eastern European country.

All but one of these 11 high-value al Qaeda prisoners were subjected to the harshest interrogation techniques in the CIA’s secret arsenal, the so-called “enhanced interrogation techniques” authorized for use by about 14 CIA officers and first reported by ABC News on Nov. 18.

Rice today avoided directly answering the question of secret prisons in remarks made on her departure for Europe, where the issue of secret prisons and secret flights has caused a furor.

Without mentioning any country by name, Rice acknowledged special handling for certain terrorists.

“The captured terrorists of the 21st century do not fit easily into traditional systems of criminal or military justice, which were designed for different needs. We have had to adapt,” Rice said.

This is outrageous. Reminds me a lot of this story (blogged about here), which none of the usual suspects seem concerned about in terms of how it affects our national security. Jim Hoagland and Thomas Joscelyn were right. People in these agencies are out to get the President and they do so by compromising the very national security they pledge to protect. Disgraceful.

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It is high time these CIA leakers face not only firing, but a Grand Jury and actual jail time.

I know the Democrats won’t be honest and demand these leakers be punished. After all, they want the same thing the Democrats want, Bush out of office, and like the Democrats, they don’t care what laws they break.

OSS CIA whose side are they on? Ho Chi Minh OSS For a week in September 1997, some of the surviving Viet Minh forces of Ho Chi Minh and veterans of the United States Office of Strategic Services (OSS), who collaborated in 1945 near the end of World War II, met for a second “reunion” in New York City. Some of these same men and women had met in 1995 in Vietnam to begin an oral history project sponsored by the Ford Foundation and the Vietnam USA Society.